"we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect"
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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one of the worst distros ever so I guess this is pretty obvious choice and telling to some.
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Brave hates gays
Boo
I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.
I don't know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.
The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
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Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with extensions like uBlock pre-installed
Edit: it looks like they're heavily tweaking Brave regardless. I doubt this move was for technical reasons
Probably someone's pet project
Or, you know, a marketing company that develops a browser maybe bought an ad
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Wow, never recommending zorin to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.
Recent firefox policy change is controversial, but how brave is better?
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the everyday linux distro that is famous for asking people for money for their pro version, cause they know most of the userbase is coming from windows and doesnt know that everything is free?
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talk about bad taste
Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool's day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.
Y not gnome web